small batch hot sauces & private label and CO-Packing Services

SMALL BATCH Hot sauce & dried spice CO-PACKING SOLUTIONS

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Looking to increase your current production or get your recipes to market?

With PepperNutz's small-batch hot sauce co-packing program, we can custom craft small-batch creations with just about any type of sauce recipe you have (e.g. hot sauces, barbecue sauces, wing sauces, etc.). Since our program inception we have been in partnership with the nations leading top-quality co-packing facility to craft all of our sauces in their regulated facility. Our program provides recipe enhancement assistance to prepare for large-scale production and safety and stability testing (e.g. nutrition analysis, shelf stability, scheduled process certifications). We can also provide resources if you wish to establish those on your own.

We source top quality fresh ingredients to support all of our production projects and work with you to customize your bottling needs. Our success is measured by your success, so our Production and Marketing Managers work with you every step of the way to ensure we deliver best-in-class service and products.

Customized Hot Sauce & Specialty Sauce co-packing...

Small-Batch Brewing

Customized Packaging & Shipping

Label Printing & Application

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We understand small and mid-sized businesses because we are one too. With our partners, we provide quality brewing services in a regulated production environment using 100 gallon kettles. Our production model is scalable so we can cater to customers just starting out or upscale production to meet the needs customers fulfilling larger retailer and industrial contracts.

Label Printing & Application

Customized Packaging & Shipping

Label Printing & Application

Fully automated label application for our hot sauce co-packing and private label hot sauce programs.

Once cooking is finalized with either hot or cold bottle filling processes, we apply the heat-shrink safety seals and custom designed labels (whether designed and printed by our team or yours), and stamp lot-codes on the bottles. If needed we can also stamp "best-by" or "sell-by" dates on the bottles. We then pack the orders and ship them to you all ready to hit the shelves.

Customized Packaging & Shipping

PepperNutz industrial hot sauce totes. We provide customized hot sauce co-packaging solutions.

Depending on your distribution and fulfillment needs, we will ship your finished products where ever you need them to go. This may include our standard 12-pack corrugated boxes, case-stacked pallets, or industrial totes. The point is, will work with you to ensure you get exactly what you need, when you need it, and where you need it.

Customized Dry goods Co-packing for spices, seasonings & rub

Recipe Development

Small-Batch Blending

Our Production Manager takes your recipes, with confidentiality, and up-scales the measurements to fulfill your bulk production needs. Our spice-masters will provide recommendations for improvement, advice for shelf-stabilization, etc., to make sure your recipes are ready for market.

Small-Batch Blending

PepperNutz private label seasonings, spices and rubs blending process

We then blend the final recipes in our state-of-the-art equipment and work with you to fine tune coloration, granularity, weight/measures, and most importantly taste. We then provide samples for your inspection and once approved, the final ingredient lists are provided for label designing.

Bottling & Packaging

Small-Batch Blending

Bottling & Packaging

PepperNutz private label seasonings, spices and rubs bottle filling process

Once the recipe blending and label printing is finalized, we package your custom seasoning, spice or rub creations in your choice of container and cap, and apply heat-seals and labels. Depending on your needs, we'll ship your finished products where ever you need them to go.

How Our Custom sauce co-packing Program works

Sauce Recipe Development & Production

Our Custom Sauce Co-packing Program is designed for customers who have their own hot sauce / BBQ sauce / wing sauce / etc. recipes which they would like produced in larger volume. Co-Packing estimates cannot be quoted upfront without knowing the details of your recipes, but we can start by explaining the minimums so you can see if this fits in with your expectations and budgets. We brew in small-batch 100 gallon kettles and typically bottle hot sauces in 5oz. woozy bottles. This scenario would net approximately 2,500 bottles of finished product. We can sometimes brew in lesser amounts depending on the recipe.

To be able to provide production quotes for recipes, we will need your recipe, nutrition analysis results, and scheduled process authority (shelf stability) for each recipe - if completed. If you are not that far along in the process, then PepperNutz can help you from beginning-to-end. Our start-up program completes those essential processes and once completed we can then provide you a production quote. If you already have the lab testing completed, then we can provide production quotes more quickly.

Our start-up sauce development program is approximately an $1,800 investment and lower variations are available as well depending on how far along in the process you are. The holistic process typically takes about a month depending on the time of year. The start-up program fee includes:

Set-up: Includes recipe evaluation and initial consultation to prepare for upscaling to small-batch production. Also includes completion of a production quote for your recipe.
Test Batch: Includes an initial sample development run (approximately 48 bottles) to ensure we can match to your preferred taste, consistency, coloration, etc., and to produce the samples needed for the product testing phase.
Lab Testing: Includes FDA-compliant recipe shelf stability testing and nutrition analysis; and completion of the Process Authority letter. Please note that if you choose to have PepperNutz also file the Process Authority letter with the FDA, then there is an additional $350.00 filing fee.
Discussions/consultation on the overall design and materials needed to produce the final products (e.g. bottles, caps, safety seals, labels, etc.)

To get started we will first perform a no-cost review of your recipe and cooking process to see if your recipe/s are a good fit for our production processes. We will need the following to be able to review any recipes:

a finalized recipe with exact measurements and net volume results of the recipe batch
a description of your preparation/cooking process
a sample of the final product

For additional information or to begin this process, please submit an inquiry using the form below or call us @ 1-855-PEP-NUTZ.

How our custom seasoning / rub co-packing program works

Seasoning & Rub Recipe Development & Production

Our Custom Seasoning and Rub Co-packing Program is designed for customers who have their own seasoning recipes which they wish to have produced. Co-Packing estimates cannot be quoted upfront without knowing the details of your recipes, but we can start by explaining the minimums and how our initial recipe sample development process works, so you can see if this fits in with your expectations and budget.

The start-up development fee is $85 plus materials (raw goods and packaging), which is typically about $30, but can vary depending on the type of materials required and how much of a sample you desire. PepperNutz will custom blend almost any dry seasoning recipe (assuming any unique ingredients can be sourced) and provide up to 3 unique packaging size samples.

Customers must provide:

Your Recipe with all ingredients measured by weight (grams)
Confirmation of the quantity of blend desired (between 5 to 35 lbs.)

Customers will receive:

Up to 6 packed sample items (using a combination of the 3 options) and excess in a bulk bag
Confirmation of the final blended recipe measurements
Price quotes and minimum order details (minimums can be as low as 48 units)

Once this process is completed, we are ready for production. This program can also be used for co-packing of our bulk snacks. For additional information or to begin this process, please submit an inquiry using the form below or call us @ 1-855-PEP-NUTZ.